The adoption and use of health information technology (HIT) by Rhode Island physicians, 2009.
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Electronic medical record (EMR) systems and e-prescribing by physicians have the potential to reduce the incidence of medical errors and to improve the provision of care to patients through better compliance with recommended standards, improved coordination of care, and ready access to current information. 1, 2 In 2008, after a national survey , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 41.5% of office-based physicians were using a medical record that was partly or fully electronic. About half of these, or 21% of all respondents, were using at least a “basic EMR” that included the following: electronic documentation of patient demographics, patient problem lists, and clinical notes; computerized orders for prescriptions; computerized receipt of imaging reports; and computerized receipt of and lab results. Because of the expected impact of health information technology (HIT) on quality of care and the President’s goal that all Americans will be able to benefit from an electronic health record by 2014, the Rhode Island Department of Health’s legislatively-mandated public reporting program, the Health Care Quality Performance (HCQP) Program, performs an annual survey of physicians on their adoption and use of EMRs and e-prescribing. The survey results are reported both at an aggregate statewide level and for individual physicians. This report summarizes the statewide results for the 2009 Physician HIT Survey. (The 2010 Physician HIT Survey is underway.)
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medicine and health, Rhode Island
دوره 93 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010